Example sentences of "he [adv] went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presumably went by his own codes on the packet . |
| 2 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 3 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 4 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |
| 5 | Sir Geoffrey met the Commissioner at a Lord Mayor 's Banquet , and when he became worried he naturally went to him . |
| 6 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 7 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 8 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 9 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 10 | he only went about a week and then he closed . |
| 11 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 12 | He just went with it , unresisting and unquestioning . |
| 13 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 14 | ‘ He just went to sleep . ’ |
| 15 | And he just went to the sc school in the Wintertime . |
| 16 | He just went about the business of reloading again , breaking open the shotgun and reaching into the pocket of his jacket for more shells . |
| 17 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 18 | Yet he just went from strength to strength . |
| 19 | The upper rooms were silent when he finally went to his own room , but before getting into bed he pushed his wedge of broken chair-leg under the door to keep the Bogeyman out . |
| 20 | He finally went to bed , cursing himself for his own sentimentality , certain the feeling was due to tiredness and jet-lag , no more . |
| 21 | It did more for Denby Dale than for George III as he soon went into a decline , but the tradition then started is still going strong , with the pies getting bigger in size every time . |
| 22 | He promptly went into hiding but was eventually captured . |
| 23 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |
| 24 | And I do n't think he ever went to problem you know , a pub fight at all . |
| 25 | And although the bureaucratic mice were invisibly at work , he still went through the motions of shifting hands and improving his grip on the branch . |
| 26 | In vacations he still went for interviews with his psychiatrist , who did not feel that he had quite got ‘ to the bottom of things ’ . |
| 27 | He always went to sleep with his still burning , so he got through a lot more than she did . |
| 28 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 29 | He always went for a type — dark-haired , dark-eyed endomorphs — and when chatting up his quarry , his voice would change from baritone to bass baritone without realising . |
| 30 | He always went for a walk about this hour . |